NSF-CAREER: The Listening Machine IIS-0238301 2003–2008 Final Report

This six-year project started with the idea of applying sound recognition and separation techniques that had originated in speech recognition to a broader domain of environmental sound mixtures. As it proceeded, the work diversified into several distinct areas, reflecting the different directions of the graduate students primarily supported by the project: Manuel Reyes and Keansub Lee worked on environmental sound separation and classification; Graham Poliner and Michael Mandel worked on music audio transcription and classification, and Xanadu Halkias applied many of the same ideas and techniques to the analysis of underwater recordings of dolphin sounds.